I don't normally release these, but I figured it made sense with the number of short guys I've been making lately. Very cool. very sweet

I'm a bit of a Queen fanatic, so I saw this in theatres as soon as I could and I was just disappointed on every level. It gets so much of the history wrong, which, you know, it's a Biopic, they do that for the sake of story, drama, etc. - but then, it leaves out one of the single most iconic moments of Queen Drama, when they split with their old manager and wrote this absolute banger of a song, Death On Two Legs, which is just 4 minutes of them finding increasingly eloquent and imaginative ways to call him a jackass. Also the rest of the band is just, like, the rest of the band that hangs around the very famous cool guy who gets too famous for his own good and becomes slightly less col for a bit. Brian May is an ASTROPHYSICIST who shaped the band's whole sound with a custom guitar he designed as a teenager. Roger Taylor is one of the most influential drummers of all time and wrote the song Lady Gaga named herself after (among a lot of other boundary-pushing bangers). John Deacon is a bassist, but he managed to overcome that and write some of Queen's most iconic anthems. they took some of the most fascinating and naturally entertaining people who've ever lived and crammed them into one of the most boring, paint by numbers formulas in cinema.

The way that Brian and Roger are presented in the film as perfect saints that don't do drugs or partying the way Freddie does 100% makes it obvious that this film was clearly influenced by them

The film makers were so afraid of Freddie Mercury's queerness that they somehow managed to make him boring... that is honestly impressive to me

Elton John's story about Freddie Mercury I feel perfectly encapsulates who he is. Christmas in 1991 a month after Freddie died, Elton received a painting that he often talked about wanting on his doorstep. A note was attached revealing that it was from Freddie (from "Melina" to "Sharon" more specifically which were their drag names for each other lol). Freddie was dying from a brutal disease that had a harsh stigma from the world attached to it. And in those last painful moments he still made a point to think of his friends....with style and humor too. I missed that Freddie in the film. His kindness. His bravery. His refusal to let tragedy leave him defeated. His generosity. His sense of humor and love for life. This film showed none of that and it is such an insult to him. And it makes me really sad to think that Brian and Roger signed off on it. I don't think I can ever look at them the same way after that.

My favorite scene in this movie is when Freddie throws a party and the rest of the band is like “Freddie how dare you you know that we all we don’t drink and get in bed by 9 o clock”

Just the fact that the writers had to lie and say the band broke up, all because they needed to meet their mandatory requirement of a "Third Act Break-up", THE most overused trope in film making, shows that they didn't care about the content. So many real life people, many of whom are still alive, were demonized just to make the band seem more like underdogs. They also depicted Freddie as unruly as a child, and having changed his name out of shame pf his background. In real life, he got along fine with his family, and actually had a Zoroastrian funeral, so i think he was pretty okay with his heritage.

You know you messed up when "Freddy mercury gets Trapped in a slide and calls out for mamma (ASMR)" is more respectful to his legacy that whatever the fuck this is.

I still can't get over that line about how Freddie Mercury makes music for shy lonely outcasts. Because, like, he makes crowd pleasing arena rock. Why does he have to be Morrissey

They spend so much time showing a really fictionalized toxic relationship with Paul Pretner, and than shove his loving relationship with Hutton into a few minutes near the end. Really seems like the movie wanted him to be with Mary, and portrayed his attraction to men as analogous to a love of partying and drugs.

I always thought Rocket Man was the superior biopic about a queer male musician, it just felt way more authentic to me in every aspect. It's a shame he passed so young, imagine how good a movie about Freddie could've been with his actual involvement rather than the weirdly joyless mythologizing we got instead

I’m still so mad that they made the huge deal out of radios not wanting to play the whole of bohemian rhapsody, and then played only a part of bohemian rhapsody

Freddie wasn’t even diagnosed with aids before live aid, in fact it was two years later in 87. I think the fact that he just wanted to play at live aid and then find out he’s actually dying could have offered a much more powerful reflection moment in the film. It makes Freddie a ridiculous unnecessary martyr, and kind of makes the decisions he makes in the movie easier which makes him boring.

YES! i have despised bohemian rhapsody for years because it makes Freddie this weird, dramatic, pitiful character. like he doesn’t feel like a person, he feels like a caricature. also Freddie allegedly didn’t know he had HIV/AIDs till 1987, 2 years after live aid. i could be wrong but that’s what i’ve heard. that fact always bothered me, like they had to make the movie about how ‘tragic’ his life was. i was a huge queen fan when it came out, and it was disappointing to say the least.

Can’t believe Epic Rap Battles of history had a more true to life version of Freddie than this biopic

Biopics like this always make me nervous. I can watch one and say, "Oh, that was nice, I guess," only for someone with much more historical knowledge to tell me, "Actually, that film was hugely disrespectful." If I don't know anything about the person they made the movie about, I just kind of have to assume in good faith that their portrayal was reasonably good, which it obviously isn't always.

Freddy: "can I be happy?" His movie: "no, being dark and miserable means being mature "

The scene with his father sucks too because Freddy is like "I'm finally doing something good like you taught me" as if the rest of it WASN'T. As if he would have been a better person if he acquiesced to his father's regressive crap

This movie had an overwhelming stench of being about how the surviving people in Freddie's life involved with this movie felt about him rather than a celebration of why he was so loved. It's such a weird morose puppet show that crucifies him rather than exalts him, as if we're supposed to be mourning some dire messianic figure instead of celebrating a wonderful showman. That and it's dawning on me that Rami Malek is only capable of one sedated miserable note and I'm flummoxed at him being so praised.

THANK YOU. THIS DROVE ME CRAZY. He said he was doing it for career reasons!! He said it out loud!!

I remember seeing this movie in Bahrain while I was in a Navy. I thought it was weirdly subtle about Freddy's sexuality, only to be surprised when I saw the more explicitly queer moments in the American version on the ship's TV. The movie was so poorly edited that it didn't occur to me that it was censored.

After all the flaccid, vacant footage of Bohemian Rhapsody in the first two thirds of the video, I genuinely teared up at the real Live Aid footage. The film captures none of the man’s electric presence, absolutely criminal stuff

It's really weird how Rami Malek starred in one of *the* best, most thought-provoking shows of all time - Mr. Robot - just to have Hollywood put him in very mediocre projects. I hope he gets something fantastic again soon.

I despise this film and I love it when people agree with my opinion

As a Queen fan, this film has two major problems when portraying Freddie:. 1. In reality Mercury was reserved and quiet, he was an introvert. He spent much of his life alone behind a piano with half a dozen cats for fuck's sake. The loud flamboyant persona was for the stage and interviews, that's not what he was in private. 2. Freddie had brown eyes, how the fuck did the makeup/costume department miss that detail? :D You'd think that when they were fitting him with fake teeth they'd have remembered that one.

As someone who watched Night At The Museum religiously as a kid it is endlessly confusing to me how Rami Malek managed to typecast himself as a tragic stuttering emo boy when he started out so far from that mark

With a few words changed, this could also describe Blonde, which turned Marilyn Monroe into a dull, self-pitying shade who never knows what she wants beyond satisfying her electra complex with various tyrannical men. It's almost like some biopics go out of their way to degrade the actual achievements of more populist artists as "fake" and unworthy for the sake of utterly contrived emotional beats about the shallowness of fame etc. (E.g. she is depicted as hating her "shallow" films because they weren't "real" or her true self)

This reminds me of how the movie The Imitation Game made Alan Turing into a stereotype of a neurodivergent savant -- socially maladjusted, can't understand what jokes are. In real life, he was witty and fun. I wonder if it's a coincidence that both these flattened-out, joyless portrayals are of brilliant, unique gay men who contributed so much to the world.

The movie is also homophobic in a way, it presents a distintion between the "good gays", monogamous and subtle, and the "bad gays" who are promiscuos a wild. Meanwhile most movies about hetero rock stars present their sexual life as something to be proud of

thinking about how they didn't bother talkig about Freddie's death at all and instead gave us 30 minutes of a concert.

One thing I hated as a John Deacon fan was the dunking on John throughout the film. Like, the constant attitude that he's "Always there" as a joke and treating him like he was just some hanger-on, when he literally was responsible for some of Queen's most long-lasting hits (Another One Bites the Dust, You're My Best Friend, I Want to Break Free), just stunk of some sort of weird misplaced jealousy from Roger/Brian, or because he didn't want to be involved after retiring from music.

This always felt like it was kinda in the same trend of kill your gays. Not the fact that he died cause thats obviously just something real that happened, but the idea that you can't show queer characters being happy cause then the big bad boogey man of gay man would destroy society. They couldn't show him being happy cause then it might say that being queer can be liberating and we cant have that

Typing Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) feels like tempting fate for the possibility of a second, worse version

Why is this movie so washed out? Everything is so pale and cold in the movie. You compare it to the actual footage from Live-Aid and Freddie’s interviews and there’s just so much warmth and color in those.

It's still so wild how this was the most undeserving movie in the Best Editing nomination and it still won

It's kinda odd that this movie is more boring than documentaries about Freddie's life. I've watched a couple and they are a delight because of all the interviews and stories about a man like him. This movie just missed the assignment.

If anyone here would like a more accurate and heartfelt portrayal of Freddie Mercury, I would recommend "Mercury and Me", written by his husband (not by law, but it is how they referred to each other!) Jim Hutton, which covers the latter end of his life. I'd also suggest "Freddie Mercury: A Life In His Own Words", which is made up entirely of direct quotes from him on various aspects of his life. Freddie was an amazing person, not nearly as sanitized and strange as this movie portrays him.

I wish we’d seen more of Hutton and Freddy’s relationship personally. Freddy is an incredibly powerful queer icon that everyone in my generation has grown up with. He deserved a movie that was fun and spunky like he was. The only part of the movie I enjoyed was the Live Aid concert and that was mostly because it was just a recreation of said concert with more cinematic angles. I honestly could have just watched Live Aid for free on KZfaq and had much more fun. The one thing Freddy said that was in the back of my mind during the movie was how the only thing he said not to do with his music and legacy was make it boring and I feel they did exactly that :/

I hate this movie so much. The moment that it broke me completely was when he confessed his illness to his bandmates. The dialogue still sticks in my brain like a rusty nail: Freddie: "I've got it." his bandmates "...What?" Freddie: "...AIDS." It's so fucking amazingly bad. I couldn't help but laugh right there in the cinema at the absurdity of these couple lines, so inexcusably awfully written as if they were handcrafted by Tommy Wiseau himself. And I felt so vile and disgusting for laughing at a man confessing that he's dying. Fuck this movie for making me laugh at a terrible tragedy because of it's shitty dialogue.

The worst thing is that rocketman came out soon after. It was a better movie, but not as popular as bohemian rapsody which is sad imo :(

This is a movie of how to take a fun dude and make him absolutely fucking miserable.

I haated this movie, it also leans into the worst parts of how being gay works and AIDS stigma (watch rocketman instead, it has fun with it)

nothing says an oscar is a completely meaningless award given out by out of touch ghouls that hate movies more so than bohemian rhapsody winning best editing

i saw bohemian rhapsody when it came out in theaters and really loved it, but over the years i ended up listening to every Queen album and doing a ton of research on the band, only to return to the film and wonder what the hell was wrong with past me.

brian may and roger taylor were both very closely attached to this movie, and all that fact does is make me wonder if they ever even *liked* freddie that much, with all the scenes of freddie being an ass, as well as being verbally beat down by a lot of people in this movie.

Rami played Freddy like a Jesus figure

I really wish we lived in the universe where we got the gritty version starring Sacha Baron Cohen

I think _Rocketman (2019)_ did the better job at being a biopic film than _Bohemian Rhapsody_ would ever be. The fact that Eggsy from the _Kingsman_ series managed to capture Elton John's portrayal is superb and the film gives off a Broadway musical feel that makes his story feels magical.

I cannot stomach Rami Malek's depiction of Freddie. Physically, he is way off. Tiny, scrawny, bug-eyed and blazé. His cadence is not even close, not even one tenth of the charisma you can see in interviews of the real Freddie. And he didn't even sing the songs in the movie, it was all lip-synced. I am genuinely appalled by the dishonesty in this portrayal, nevermind the endless praise he received upon the release of the film. Just a hard miss through and through.

I think Schaffrillas had really good points on this movie and it winning the Oscars for Best Picture; 1. They treat Mercury’s straight relationship like as if it was better than him being in his same s*x relationship 2. It has the same typical formula you’d see in a movie like this like Queen being a band that falls into pieces but than Mercury realizes he was wrong, then the band gets back together 3. The Director. The director, Bryan Singer is a scumbag and was reportedly a scumbag on set as well to where he got fired, but since he worked on most of the movie rather than his replacement, he still got the credit which proves that Hollywood is trash for rewarding terrible people like Singer, all because of some movie that likely shouldn’t have gotten the Oscar.

Can we talk about how proud everyone was about the dental prosthetic? Everyone talked about those fake teeth like they were the star of the movie when they were just distracting. Also, Freddie Mercury had pretty normalish teeth for his day an age so I was just distracted because I think his character in the movie was just Look At My Teefs.

Freddie also clearly LOVED performing and didn't take himself seriously, unlike...whatever the hell this is. Actually my favorite Freddie Mercury anecdote was about when he met Sid Vicious, who cussed him out and got aggressively in his face. Freddie Mercury literally just pushed Sid backwards out the door.

A lot of biopics are annoyingly inaccurate. Except Weird Al's, which is perfect

man I saw this in theaters w a group, and everyone walked out pumped abt how good they thought it was. except me. when it got to my turn to say what I thought, all I could say was "I can't tell if I liked the movie or if I just like Queen"

The fact that this movie thought it ended on a "high note" with a 30 minute recreation of Live Aid, when all it made you want to do was question why you weren't watching the actual live performance from the band themselves.

"Freddie Mercury fuckin' rules!" True words have never been spoken.

The awfulness of this movie is a direct result of it being made with the detailed involvement of the surviving band members, whose one agenda was to make themselves look amazing and blameless and take credit for every single success the band had while being smol innocent beans. There probably won't be a good Freddy Mercury biopic until they can't step in and make huffy noises about being made to look like he wasn't a footnote to their genius.

The weird personal focus for Live Aid was particularly bizarre because Freddie was born in Zanzibar and so obviously is going to have a very different experience and perspective on this than most of the other people performing, it's way more personal and I'm actually shocked joel didnt bring this up.

You and Little Joel should do a collab!

As a kid my life and soul were literally dedicated to Freddie Mercury, and I had been following the development of the movie since like 2012 at least and was excited about it, but as it got closer and closer to release I couldn't help but cringe at how poorly Brian and Roger handled the movie in general, and how they ridiculed John for not going to the premiere when they knew he wouldn't have anything to do with it as has been the case since Freddie died.... I still haven't watched the movie because there isn't really any point in me doing so, and i know it would just piss me off and I would scream about how "that never happened" at the screen the whole time so yeah this video resonates pretty hard with me lmao.

the thing that made me the most mad abt bohemian rhapsody (2018) is that they did a shot-for-shot re-enactment of the entire live aid concert from start to finish which was just basically padding for an already fairly drawn out movie tbh. it was so silly seeing these ppl act like musicians, seeing rami malek and his stupid fake teeth pretending to sing to a mostly digital crowd. it felt like a farce, like they were trying to cover up the actual performance, and i realize now why they didn't just have the actual concert at the end of the film: they would have had to face the cognitive dissonance between the incredibly charming, charismatic, energetic, wonderful, powerful presence of the real freddie and the victimized manic pixie dream boy freddie they created for the film.

"I wanna be impressed by him bc Freddie Mercury fkn rules!" Amen!

I remember when the movie was aired on the Polish state TV. They couldn't just play the movie, no - they had to add half an hour of a one-sided "debate" that though Freddie Mercury made good music, his way of life was bad, especially because being gay is bad and that Freddie Mercury "was at least not open about it".

Man, Freddie was so cool. This movie just made me wish he was still around so we could see more of the real him. Breaks my heart he left us early.

I want less standard biopics like Bohemian Rhapsody and Straight Outta Compton and more ones like I’m Not There and Love & Mercy that are more art house and avant-garde, ones that break the mold of the boring old rags-to-riches/cradle-to-grave story that’s been done to death and thoroughly parodied in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story.

I watched this in theatres the day it came out as I've been a very big Queen fan my entire life, and the moment I knew it wasn't really worth anyone's time was the scene where Paul Prenter is leading Freddie down a red lit hallway as "Another One Bites The Dust", their most disco (i.e. Gay) song plays. Paul is literally portrayed as leading Freddie deeper into "the gay lifestyle". Freddie Mercury being so unafraid of who he was was a really big influence on me as a kid and was a massive part of me being able to accept my own queerness at a pretty young age, so seeing his queerness represented in such a way was really just disgusting to me. I get very annoyed when every time someone brings up how bad this movie is they always make sure to go "oh but Rami Malek as Freddie was AMAZING" and I have no idea how they're able say that because _he's just not playing Freddie Mercury in my opinion._ He's doing an excellent job of portraying the Sad Pathetic Gay the writers put on screen, I'll give him that I guess.

the script was what annoyed me the most dialogue was just terrible throughout, none of the conversations sounded real *btw small note, regarding Africa not coming up prior to the Live Aid show in the movie, it somewhat of a thread through the movie given Freddie and his family moved to England from Tanzania (Zanzibar). He was born in Africa but i guess the film doesnt do a good job of making that thread obvious

It's the same problem with these biopics focused on these larger than life personalities. They always want to make them seem deep and introspective, instead of making them act like real people. In the All Eyez On Me film, they made Tupac seem like an asshole. He's always giving some empassioned speech and is lost in thought. They don't even seem like real people

I always felt kind of weird about the subplot where Freddy gets into the gay subculture and the band eventually convinces him to leave, pushing the message that "these people are bad for you".

I feel like the movie version of Freddie acts like he already had AIDS before he formed Queen

Just the fact that they changed his AIDS date says a lot about who made the movie and the movie itself

I didn't know much about Freddie Mercury going into that movie, and coming out of it I felt like I knew less.

A favorite moment of mine in queen lore that any decent queen film would have included. Queen was a band with a ton of glam and prog rock aesthetics that fit right into the early 70s, but the back half of the late 70s saw them clashing with the punk rock scene. While Freddie talked about brining ballet to the masses, and Brian May played at Queen Elizabthes jubilee, literally on the roof of Buckingham palace; The sex pistols where singing a different god save the queen song. Just so happen that they where recording in the same studio. Freddie was at the mixing board when sid vicious asked him "so have you brought ballet to the masses yet" (Dont have to read between the lines to hear the hemophobia in that) Freddie walked up and grabbed him by the collar. Called him 'Simon Ferocious' and said he hadn't yet but when he dose ‘What are you going to do about it?’. Retelling this an 80s interview "He was very well marked. I said, ‘Make sure you scratch yourself in the mirror properly today, and tomorrow you're going to get something else" That feels like such a cool cinematic moment. OK maybe they could not get permission to us sid vicious, but a scene inspired by it feels tailored made for a movie.....and this one dose nothing with that

This movie did to Freddie Mercury the exact same thing The Imitation Game did to Alan Turing. It dehumanizes them and makes their story a pity parade of sadness and victimhood by the end

Please learn the difference between AIDS and HIV. He was diagnosed with HIV. If he had AIDS at the time of the concert, he'd not be able to do the concert.

Schafrillas copies your disney sequel video topic and right away Big Joel is hunting for a hit piece on his Shrek the musical video. Out for blood.

Walk Hard is everything Bohemian Rhapsody wanted to be as a film. A raw, adult take on a 20th century musical icon.

I was utterly baffled when this won Best Editing at the Oscars. I think the voters confused "best editing" for "most editing." I'm also bitter about how this movie screwed over "Rocket Man."

My mom forced me to watch this with her after a breakup telling me it’s a “feel good” film. I still don’t forgive her

Too me it always felt like they were afraid to show him as a human. It suffers from people who knew him being too involved.

I didn’t know Lindsay Ellis was on Nebula. I thought she had given up video content creation entirely. I think Nebula is a good streaming service, and this has given me the push I needed to sign up.

I remember at the time Bohemian Rhapsody received middling to poor reviews, and the only thing everyone agreed on was that Rami Malek's performance saved the movie. And then all of a sudden it was a frontrunner during awards season. It won the Golden Globe for Best Drama, was nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, and it won the most Oscars of any film that year--including Best Film Editing and Best Actor. Audiences generally liked it and it did extremely well at the box office. But I never understood how this movie went from middle-of-the-road crowd pleaser to one of the best of the year. 2018 was also the year that Green Book won Best Picture though, so that year was clearly cursed.

I heard a Queen fan theorise that Queen playing Live Aid was the culmination of their redemption arc for violating the creative embargo on apartheid-era South Africa, and tbh that makes sense, but the surviving members of Queen were producers on the movie and I can understand why they probably didn't want to draw attention to the fact that - contrary to the narrative of the rest of the movie - Freddie wasn't the only source of drama and bad decisions in the band.

This won an award for editing but people still get wound up about the Oscars as if they mean anything in terms of quality

This movie was not made by people who wanted to make a movie about Freddy Mercury. It was made by people who wanted to make a movie about [INSERT FAMOUS DEAD PERSON HERE] and the person they eventually decided on was Freddy Mercury.

I only saw this film once. It was a date with my boyfriend to the theater. I personally had more fun singing the songs with him than watching the movie & that makes me sad. Mom gave me her own DVD of The Queen Movie, but I still have not watched it. It feels restrained, even neutered. They treat being gay/bisexual as the saddest thing that happened to Freddie before catching AIDS. They also made it look like this was about the band Queen, but it turned out to just about Freddie in an unfaithful retelling of his career. The only part I want to watch again is when they recorded the song Bohemian Rhapsody. The best shot of the film is when Freddie is standing in front of a blue truck, talking to the other band mates because the blues of this film are turned all the way up. I have heard from friends how Rocket Man feels like what The Queen Movie should have been.

So the bi guy has to prove himself to his conservative father? That is genuinely so shitty. Not only that, but they have to present partying and having sex as something to be ashamed of. I get that some people are addicted, but I doubt his father had this kind of nuance.

The bi-phobia bothered me.

"Whatever you do with my music, don't make it boring". ~Freddie Mercury.

As a huge queen fan, this movie has the stench of Mary’s grubby little hands all over it. The homosexual erasure and demonization, the way she is the only person who can fix him. Heteros absolutely massacred this piece of cinema.

My favorite thing about this movie is how the editor went on a seven minute rant about a youtuber that didn't like the film's editing. That's when you know a project is Oscar worthy.

I also hate it because it's just more anti bi stereotyping - the gay men are there for sex and hedonism, but the pure, white, blond woman is the only true godly approving love he is permitted to enjoy. Yes, many bi men will do that, but, how about we get something other than this or the usual "I can't be happy with only you, my new gay love - I also want to bang and be in love with your female best friend at the same time! I am bi, you see, I dont date one person at a time, but two at a time - always, I cannot be happy without two people!"

This film is also a little bit of a hit piece. The band members of Queen were absolutely instrumental in the band's success, obviously. But who they got for this film either misled the filmmakers about the true history on several occasions, or when those times popped up didn't correct them, and some of the issues are glaring. They write moments of Mercury being lazy or not putting in the time to practice, when he was by recorded account on many occasions the first one in and last one out of the studio, spending much of his free time singing and writing. They have him be this,not mopey but quietly, stoically sad figure so often when his public persona for so long was always cheerful, always holding the world together. And more. Now nobody is perfect, especially famous rock stars, but they sanded down the edges unique to this man's story and shaped the entire thing much, much more traditionally. It's just a standard by-the-numbers biopic, makes no effort to portray the most staggering and incredible moments in Queen's history OR Freddie's, and I think it did a shit job.

So many modern biopics take the twinkle, the spark, the smile, away from the subject. And it was that humour that made us love them. Judy Garland and Johnny Cash are two particularly egregious examples recently. Both could be HILARIOUS, both made you love them with their ability to make you laugh. And then when any sadness came, it had real impact.

"Why are you acting like you're trying to be inspirational in front of an audience" This is honestly the main problem with most biopics

i hate this movie bc we could have had Sacha Baron Cohen in the performance of a lifetime. He worked on that movie with Queen for almost 10 years, but the band shut it down bc he wanted to stick too true to life and focus on Freddy not the band. They barely even made him gay, and did up the marriage with his friend-wife, and wrote out all the cool druggy stuff he did. How do you leave out midgets with coke trays on their heads? I blame the band, and also the actor just bc he isn't SBC. It could have been awesome.

In History Buff's review of this movie, he pointed out a couple things that really irked me as well: 1) There's a big scene in the movie where Freddie decides to go solo, and the rest of the band is offended and flabbergasted, accusing him of breaking up Queen. In reality, all the other members of the band had done solo projects well before Mercury, and him doing solos was an eventuality. 2) Queen's decision of reconciling for Live Aid is given the cheesy reason of "Because we're _family_ ," when in real-life interviews they explicitly said they are more like workmates rather than friends, much less a "family." It really annoys me how spiteful this movie feels towards Freddie. I don't want to assume anything, but given how the other members consulted on it, you can see the how they had clear biases against him and his personal life.

To the point about Rami Malek's Freddy being weird an uncomfortable and distant and vaguely sad, I think that's on the casting director more than anything honestly because that's like Rami Malek's entire vibe in everything I've seen from him. I don't think they would've cast him for the role if that wasn't what they were goin for.

When I was looking over any & all info I could about the film before it came out, I read an article that interviewed Roger's actor & it told a funny story about how they told him as a joke "the 1 thing Roger asked for the movie is for you to be able to play drums," so he learned it. What it seems to imply though is that if they pointed out "this is the 1 thing Roger wanted," Brian asked for... more than 1 thing. Just knowing his personality, he's always the one who seems gungho about any new Queen products & does the most interviews by far, so I can see him being as hands on with the movie as he possibly could. And unfortunately, that shows.

The refusal to let Freddie be happy also explains why the movie basically ignores the fact he was in-all-but-law married to Jim Hutton for ELEVEN YEARS. They lived together, they exchanged rings, they had cats, they stayed together through the HIV/AIDS diagnosis until Freddie's death. By all accounts, it was a happy, stable marriage, but the movie can't tell that queer story because it's not Tragic (tm).